In School Quotes

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.